Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-13
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welt on the Political Situation
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TALKING POLITICS.
Theodore Rec seyelt Discusses the Pres
ent Political Situation.

ent Political Situation.
New York, May 12th-At the banquet
rendered to Theodore Roosevelt at Del
Faonico's last night, and which was at
tended by many leading Republicans
Roosevelt, in the course of speech on
The Republican Party-Its Professions
and Practices" said: The old parties
are more OF less split. There are three
side parties, or movements, | should like
to mention particularly. These are the
Prohibitionists, labor men and Independ-
ents. There is no question that if there
were but two parties, Democratic and Re-
publican, the North would be almost as
certainly Republican as the South would
be Democratic. There is no doubt if st.
John had not run we would have Re-
publican President. am of the opinion
the Republican party, least of ell, can afford
TO dodge any issue. We must meet every
issue presented us. am now speaking of
Prohibition. 1t is an issue which threatens
us directly. We have lost certain num-
Der of honest but misguided trends, who
desire absolute prohibition. We cannot
allow ourselves to be allied with the ex-
treme Prohibitionists. Our platform
should be local option for the country and
high license for the city. This would be
one great step taken in managing this fac
tion. The labor movements cause more
apprehension to Democrats that to our
selves. / deeply regret anything like class
parties. They do not exist in countries
where they have true American spirit.
/ was spoken of in the last cleo
ton as a bloated capitalist. l never
hired labor except on my ranch. There |
have a class of men from Maine and the
far East, who are known in the country as
hired help. They consider themselves any
mans equal. They work faithfully. live
well and vote the Republican ticket. That
is the right democratic spirit, but not in
the partisan sense. In this city / rejoiced
to see the labor movement was for working
q reform in the machine politics. think
the end was good. but they were utterly
mistaken by their means. The land
theories of George are hard to argue, for
they are more for the purpose of opera
bouffe than discussion. 1t is sad to see
men of such liberality of spirit, such
purity of intelligence. as George and Nc
Glynn attempting to start such theory as
an ant;-poverty society. One might as well
start all anti-gravitation society to stop the
earth from moving, because we fall down"
Roosevelt was opposed to Chinese immi-
grafton and cheap, imported labor. q l be-
lieve," he said, in raising the wages of.
native workmen. We must exercise strict
supervision on immigration in large bodies
to this country. We should keep out pau
pers and lunatics, and moral lepers, like
Herr Most"
i About Mugwumps, Roosevelt said g
cannot svmpathize with the mendacious
and ridiculous variety of Mugwump. |
| can sympathize with a man who feels that
he had better cut off his right arm and go
| through life manned than commit dis
| honest act There are certain Mugwump
| newspapers whose whole stock in trade
consists of hatred to the Republican party
We have no other issue but that and that
| only, they seem to say. They fairly revel
| in their adulation of Cleveland They
boast that they carry sovereignty under
their own hats, but they don't, they carry
| it under Clevelands hat. One of them in
| a mass meeting recently asserted that their
attitude toward Cleveland would be one of
| confidence, not criticism. There are no
Democratic partisans more blindly partisan
| than they. In pure spitefulness of tone
these papers are of a thoroughly feminine
cast. In their anger they become shrill-
chiding viragos and common scolds. They
delight in nothing SO much as belittling
the members of the party TO which they
formerly belonged. They take pleasure in
mean falsifcations. They suppress part of
the truth and Indignantly falsify.'